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Jealousy is a useless, time-wasting emotion that’s eating me alive.

A. J. Jacobs

The key to making healthy decisions is to respect your future self. Honor him or her. Treat him or her like you would treat a friend or a loved one.
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Med students panic their first year when they learn all the diseases. It’s not until the second year that they learn the cures.
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Jealousy is a useless, time-wasting emotion that’s eating me alive.
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I love to live things, so I wanted to immerse myself and get into the mindset – and sandals – of my forefathers.
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I grew up in a very secular home with no religion at all, so I was starting from zero.
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I thought religion would eventually wither away and we’d all be worshiping at the altar of science.
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I was what they call ‘skinny fat’ – a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.
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After a while, if you’re committed, you start to believe in the things in which you’re praying. It’s just cognitive dissonance. You can’t live a completely religious life and not start to have it sink in.
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Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great and powerful one.
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I’d recommend learning to accept rejection. Become friends with rejection. Be nice to rejection, because it’s a huge part of being a writer, no matter where you are in your career.
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My reading list grows exponentially. Every time I read a book, it’ll mention three other books I feel I have to read. It’s like a particularly relentless series of pop-up ads.
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It’s a different way of looking at the world. Your life isn’t about rights. It’s about responsibilities.”–Mr Bill Berkowitz
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I thought religion would make me live with my head in the clouds, but as often as not, it grounds me in this world.
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There’s a beauty to forgiveness, especially forgiveness that goes beyond rationality. Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great & powerful one
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If my former self and my current self met for coffee, they’d get along OK, but they’d both probably walk out of the Starbucks shaking their heads and saying to themselves, “That guy is kinda delusional.”
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It’s hard to be in a bad mood when you’re walking around looking like you’re about to play the semifinals at Wimbledon.
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